Environmental Pulse

The Second Regular Session of the 108th Nebraska Legislature convened on January 3, 2024.  Through the first ten days of the Session, we identified and analyzed 87 legislative bills of interest.  Those analyses are at this link.  Summaries in our companion newsletter, the Dirt Alert, are at this link. As […]

The Second Regular Session of the 108th Nebraska Legislature convened on January 3, 2024.  Forty-seven legislative days remain in the session as of January 22, 2024.  The Legislature will adjourn sine die on April 18. Because this is the Second Regular Session, bills that did not pass last Session carry […]

Following the Supreme Court’s decision in County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, the EPA plans to regulate some indirect pollutant discharges like direct discharges. On November 27, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published a request for public comments on how EPA should implement the U.S. Supreme Court’s […]

EPA’s tracker provides federal guidelines and updates for carbon capture and storage (“CCS”) projects but no guarantee of a timely Class VI permit approval. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) recently published a new tracker (available at this link) that details the EPA’s progress in reviewing Class VI permit applications.  […]

In RRVSG Assoc. v. Regan, the court temporarily reinstated the right of agricultural producers to use Chlorpyrifos, a key ingredient in chemical pesticides. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit recently decided RRVSG  Assoc.  v. Regan, File No. 22- 422 (8th Cir. Nov. 2, 2023), a case challenging […]